With recent recruitment news articles highlighting companies' fears of an impending skills gap in the job market due to young people being put off by today's recruitment processes, Eploy clients such as Matalan began addressing this issue long before it became newsworthy.

As technologists we are often guilty more than most of using and latching onto ‘buzzwords’. On a constant mission to differentiate ourselves from our competitors we seek the ‘unique value proposition’. We ‘think outside the box’; our internal teams have ‘mind showers’ where ‘blue sky thinking’ shortlists possible ideas that we may ‘focus group’. We may take one of these ideas and ‘run it up the flagpole to see who salutes it’.